Vision Therapy

2012
12.16

We ended up seeing the vision therapist on Tuesday when she had a last minute opening. She convinced us to do some therapy with her before and after strabismus surgery to get a better chance of the surgery working the first time. She prescribed glasses and gave us several assignments to work on daily with the eye patch until we get the glasses and then with the glasses once we get them.

Here is a simplified summary of our assignments in the pursuit of helping his eyes team together and help his overall development:
1. Move an object at his centration point (the point at which his eyes work together which will be moved out to 12″ with glasses as its only about 4″ without) in a figure eight for him to follow.
2. Move objects in the z-axis at his centration point for him to follow.
3. Watching gingham pattern cloth held at centration point.
4. Tummy time
5. Work on rolling back to front and front to back.
6. Support laying on stomach on ball to pick toy up and then release.

We will do this for a month once the glasses show up and then back to her to see how it is going. Unfortunately, the glasses are harder to get then I expected. We will be getting the Meriflex baby glasses that are made from soft plastic and considered highly durable for babies/toddlers. There are so few baby glasses and only a handful of local places have them and at a highly inflated rate. I also looked into ordering online but after visiting a couple optometrists, realized it is just too hard to fit babies to be able to order sight unseen. Even ordering locally, my optometrist had the demo kit but still has to order the pair we request so I don’t see us getting them before Christmas. This also means that we will very likely delay the surgery.